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More than 1 million doses of Gavi-funded cholera vaccines heading to Sierra Leone after severe flooding and landslides Half a million people in Sierra Leone will be able to access the life-saving cholera vaccine within […]

New analysis shows an investment of US$4.70 per newborn could generate US$300 billion in economic gains by 2025. 1 August 2017 | GENEVA/NEW YORK – No country in the world fully meets recommended standards for […]

27 July 2017, GENEVA – New WHO data from 28 countries – representing approximately 70% of the global hepatitis burden – indicate that efforts to eliminate hepatitis are gaining momentum. Published to coincide with World […]

      Cholera continues to spread in Yemen, causing more than 390 000 suspected cases of the disease and more than 1800 deaths since 27 April. WHO and its partners are responding to the […]

Multidisciplinary teams in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are faced with numerous challenges as they respond to an outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the remote, forested regions in the northern part of the […]

23 May 2017 | GENEVA – Today the Member States of WHO elected Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as the new Director-General of WHO. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was nominated by the Government of Ethiopia, and […]

Berlin/Genf. 19.4.2017 – Beim Weltgesundheitsgipfel gegen vernachlässigte Tropenkrankheiten bekräftigten Margret Chan, Generaldirektorin der Weltgesundheitsorganisation, der frühere UN-Generalsekretär Kofi Annan und Bill Gates die Umsetzung der in der so genannten Agenda 2030 vereinbarten UN-Nachhaltigkeitsziele zu vernachlässigten […]

Regierungen und private Spender verpflichten sich auf dem fünftägigen Gipfeltreffen in Genf 812 Millionen US Dollar zu spenden. Von der Weltgesundheitsorganisation veröffentlichte Daten zeigen, dass die Medikamente zur Prophylaxe von NTDs bereits fast eine Milliarde […]